WILDER MOVES

Dedicated to films foregrounding the human body in movement through the landscape, either as dance or performance art. From the dramatic West Highlands of Scotland, through Spain, Canada and Brazil, these landscapes become the staging for human movement, through bodies at times sensually involved, at others in dynamic opposition. In traversing nature we experience movement-dance as an always reflexive yet at times incongruous presence within the landscape. Full programme details below.

There will be an audience discussion about dance in film at the end of the screening. At least two of the filmmakers plan to be present.

Friday 26th October, 10.45am
Heart of Hawick, Tower Mill

Away From Here

Directed by: Katrina McPherson
Not a premiere

Running time: 00:13:00
Year: 2011
Country: Scotland

Synopsis:

Set in the dramatic West Highlands of Scotland, Away From Here examines the fleeting relationship of people to a sense of place and belonging; exploring the incongruity of our relationship to an ancient landscape.

A collaboration between highly acclaimed dance company plan B and multi-award winning Goat Media, the project was filmed in HD, entirely on location with an international cast and crew in August 2011.

Biography/Filmography:

Katrina McPherson is an award-winning video-dance maker whose work is highly regarded on both a national and international level. Over the past 15 years, Katrina has combined making video dance with directing television programmes for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV.

Frank McConnell is an award-winning choreographer and Artistic Director of plan B dance company. Frank set up plan B in 1989 to explain new ways of creating and presenting original and innovative performances. The company has always been committed to a bold and imaginative style which is innovative in its devising and accessible in its delivery.

Artist's Website: http://www.planbcreative.org

Venue: Main auditorium - Heart of Hawick, Tower Mill
Screening date: Friday 26th October
Screening time: 10.45am
Tickets: £4 (for the 'Wilder Moves' programme)
Programme: Wilder Moves

Caught in a Shell

Directed by: Claudia Borgna
Scottish Premiere, United Kingdom premiere, European premiere, World premiere

Running time: 00:09:07
Year: 2011
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis:

ARTIST CLAUDIA BORGNA INTERACTS WITH HER ARTWORK MADE OUT OF HUNDREDS OF RECYCLED PLASTIC BAGS, THIS TIME THE BAGS ARE SCULPTED INTO LARGE VEILS TO FORM SHELL LIKE SKIN LAYERS. PROTECTION OR CONSTRICTION? THE STRUGGLE TAKES PLACE BY THE BEACH SHORE RHYTHMICALLY ACCOMPANIED BY THE SEA WAVES.

Biography/Filmography:

Claudia Borgna graduated from Genoa University (Italy) in Foreign Literature in 1998
and received a Fine Art BA degree from London Metropolitan University (UK) in 2005. Since then she has been leading a nomadic life style exhibiting nationally and internationally while attending fellowship residency programmes. She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell, the Pollock-Krasner Grant and the Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award as well as the Pritzker Foundation Endowed Fellowship Award.
Voted the ‘Public Speaks’ winner for the 2010 Broomhill National Sculpture Prize (UK), and was short-listed for the BBC2 documentary: “School of Saatchi” as well as for the British Women Artists Prize.

Artist's Website: http://www.claudiaborgna.com

Clearing

Directed by: J. Inksetter
European premiere

Running time: 00:04:00
Year: 2012
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis:

In clearing the performers act upon the landscape, and in turn are acted upon by the landscape. The nature of the location becomes a source of information transmitted to the body. The sunlight breaking through the forest canopy, the spiraling growth patterns of the ferns, the shape and resonant energy of the clearing, act together to trigger the performers movement.

Biography/Filmography:

Jonathan inksetter is an interdisciplinary
artist working in installation, video, sculpture and scenography. At
the 2000 San Francisco International Film Festival his work
MusicVideos received a Golden Gate and was praised by the jury as "
expanding and subverting the predominant clichés which have defined
and limited the scope of the music video for over a decade." In 2004
he directed the invited , a short film based on a performance by Meg
Stuart /Damaged Goods. It was described in Contemporary U.K. as
"slick and disconcerting - with inspired spacial and temporal
(dis)orientation." It premiered at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Artist's Website:

Dowsing

Directed by: Irene Loughlin & Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa
World premiere

Running time: 04:46:00
Year: 2010
Country: Canada

Synopsis:

dowsing

A reiteration of the historical practice of dowsing, an act of uncovering oil, gemstones, precious metals and ore, gravesites and other matter. Separated from its original function, the action assumes a pacifying tone, and becomes an undertaking which draws no conclusion.

Biography/Filmography:

Irene Loughlin's performance art works and videos have been presented in many contexts including the Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC), the Society for Disability Arts and Culture (Vancouver, BC), the Deformes Festival (Santiago, Chile), and the Performance Saga Festival BONE 11 (Bern, Switzerland).

Naufús Ramirez-Figueroa is an artist whose installation, video, and performance work delves into folklorism, sexuality, magical practices, the welfare of children in war, the experiences of refugees, and poetry. Recent projects have been presented at Casa America (Madrid), Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart), Des Pacio (Costa Rica), The Hangar (Beirut), and The Paiz Biennial (Guatemala City).

Artist's Website: http://ireneloughlin.com and naufus.com

Driftlines: Flooded Memories

Directed by: Rachel Sweeney
Scottish Premiere

Running time: 00:04:00
Year: 2011
Country: Ireland

Synopsis:

This short dance film explores sense and synapses within a delicate ecology of rock, water, salt and skin. Driftlines follows a series of shifting perspectives held by both camera and dancer, captured along the Copper Coast shingle stretches of south east Ireland. Here, the camera follows a dancer's physical immersion and tactile exploration of those arterial spaces that are left in the wake of coastal erosion. The movement and environmental sounds fuse with internalized sensations to create a kinesthetic experience moving from water to land.

Biography/Filmography:

Rachel is an interdisciplinary dance artist whose work explores intersections between dance and ecology. She has received several awards for her independent research into the Japanese dance art of Butoh from the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin Corporation, as well as two solo performance commissions from Butoh UK (2003) and Dance in Devon (2009). Manus Sweeney is an independent film maker and runs 'whatelse video' production company (Netherlands). This is their film debut.

Artist's Website: http://www.rachelsweeney.co.uk

Flux

Directed by: Kika Nicolela
Not a premiere

Running time: 00:11:00
Year: 2005
Country: Brazil

Synopsis:

A body defies its exterior; wanders through the path from the impotency to the vital force. A red tissue wraps it and cuts it from the rest of the world. The body gradually fuses with the elements around it – a clay building, a valley, a river – striving to balance the inner and outer world.

Biography/Filmography:

Kika Nicolela is a Brazilian artist and experimental filmmaker. Her works include single-channel videos, installations, performances, experimental documentaries and photography. Graduated in Film and Video by the University of Sao Paulo, Kika Nicolela also completed film courses at UCLA University. She was the recipient of several grants and has participated of nearly 100 solo and collective exhibitions in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, UK and US.

Suzy Okamoto

Visual artist, Master in Visual Arts by the Art Institute of Unesp, Sao Paulo. Since 2000, she researches the space of intersection between the various art categories: visual arts, fashion, music, architecture and performing arts.

Artist's Website: http://www.dilemastudio.com

Windmaker

Directed by: Kika Nicolela
Not a premiere

Running time: 00:10:58
Year: 2007
Country: Brazil

Synopsis:

A female body dissolves into the landscape.

Biography/Filmography:

Kika Nicolela is a Brazilian artist and filmmaker. Her works include single-channel videos, installations, performances, experimental documentaries and photography. Graduated in Film and Video by the University of Sao Paulo, Kika Nicolela was the recipient of several grants and has participated of over 100 solo and group exhibitions in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, UK and US.

Artist's Website: http://www.dilemastudio.com

五行：《火》

Directed by: Jac Min
United Kingdom premiere

Running time: 00:03:36
Year: 2011
Country: Singapore

Synopsis:

"Birth is not a beginning, death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point."

Fire is a symbol of change and birth; of life and yet death, but through death, rebirth. 五行：火。 is a dance film that attempts to capture the beauty in destruction and the violence in creation.

Biography/Filmography:

In his spare time, he makes films and dabbles actively in motion design, creating commercial
works for corporate identities and branding. In 2010, he co-founded The Collective from the
earnings of his imaginary airline Nouvelle Air. Today, he co-directs under the banner, and
occasionally doubles as chief lighting technician, compositor, and postproduction supervisor.
The Collective has since gone by the name of Semicolon.
His friends think he should have enrolled in flight school instead.
But in 2008, he received the Media Education Scheme Scholarship from the Media
Development Authority of Singapore for his undergraduate studies in film. Upon completion of
his undergraduate research program undertaken at NTU in 2010, he received the title of the
NTU President’s Research Scholar, for his film ‘Xiang/Yan.’ under the mentorship of Asst.
Professor Michael Tan.

Artist's Website: http://www.jacmin.com

Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival

Away From Here

Caught in a Shell

Clearing

Dowsing

Driftlines: Flooded Memories

Flux

Windmaker

五行：《火》